LongRange vs Absolute Secure Access
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LongRange
Enhance your IBM i 5250 applications with a modern user interface on your mobile devices. Integrate data from various sources like GPS and cameras without altering your existing RPG, COBOL, or CL programs.
- Enhanced IBM i 5250 UI
- Mobile data integration (GPS, camera)
- No changes to RPG/COBOL/CL programs
- Pickers, menus, enhanced navigation
- Image, sound, location capture
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LongRange allows IBM i (formerly AS/400) 5250 server based applications to present an enhanced user interface. Information presented on iPhones or iPads may be combined with information from other sources - such as files, documents, GPS, cameras, voice recorders, web pages, etc. Key features: - The classic IBM i 5250 user interface may be extended and enhanced by the addition of pickers, menus, enhanced navigation techniques, date pickers, image, sound and location capture, etc. - Companies can gain the benefits of application mobility without changing their current RPG, COBOL or CL program development approaches. This is the LongRange client component. You also need a LongRange server component installed on your IBM i server.
Absolute Secure Access
This app provides secure and resilient network connectivity for accessing critical resources. It offers a Zero Trust approach to network access, enhancing security and user productivity. The platform includes advanced threat detection and network monitoring capabilities.
- Resilient network connectivity
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Data encryption and access controls
- Proactive network monitoring
- AI/ML-powered threat detection
- User and entity behavior analysis (UEBA)
- Configurable alerts
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The Absolute Secure Access product portfolio provides resilient network connectivity for users to securely access critical resources in the public cloud, private data centers, and on-premises. These products allow users to transition from traditional VPN to a resilient Zero Trust approach, without impairing productivity or administrative controls. Absolute VPN provides security and confidentiality for data in motion by means of encryption and access controls. It also offers benefits to the end user, such as making tunnel and network sessions resilient and optimizing streaming video and audio. Absolute ZTNA provides a software-defined perimeter via Zero Trust Network Access, creating a context-based, logical access boundary around an application or set of applications – wherever they're hosted. It shields applications from the Internet, making them invisible to unauthorized users. Access policies are enforced at the endpoint, avoiding latency and any data transgression. Absolute Insights for Network offers diagnostic and experience monitoring capabilities across endpoints and network, allowing organizations to proactively monitor, investigate, and remediate end user performance issues quickly and at scale, even on networks that are not company-owned or managed. The Secure Access SaaS platform leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to provide highly resilient, advanced threat detection combined with user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA). Secure Access analyzes each device’s activity to establish a comprehensive baseline of normal network behavior for that device and user. Regardless of whether a device has Secure Access policies that route traffic inside or outside a tunnel, the new AI-powered network security and vulnerability detection capabilities continuously monitor all devices for deviations in behavior, analyzing network traffic, user behavior, application usage and data access patterns, including the following: o Data exfiltration o Unsafe application and web browsing behavior o Malicious network port scanning o New applications generating network traffic o Denial of service attacks o Device being used at unusual times o Higher than expected network activity o New network usage patterns o Device acting as a server o Device refusing server-like requests o Device network usage is abnormal Secure Access generates configurable alerts with rich context and direct links to detailed Insights for Network dashboards, empowering security teams to prioritize and investigate potential threats. As new threats emerge and user behavior evolves, Secure Access automatically modifies its baseline for each user’s device and potential threat profiles, ensuring your defenses remain continuously updated. All clients require a licensed server to work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: LongRange at 100% against Absolute Secure Access's 20%. LongRange also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17). Absolute Secure Access's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Absolute Secure Access holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Absolute Secure Access has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of LongRange's written reviews are positive against 20% of Absolute Secure Access's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LongRange | Absolute Secure Access |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LANSA Holdings Inc. | NetMotion Software Inc. |
Customer experience
LongRange
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In-app purchases
LongRange
No in-app purchases
Absolute Secure Access
No in-app purchases
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